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By Chelsea Adams Four organ transplant patients who contracted fungal infections following surgeries at two University of Pittsburgh hospitals didn't acquire the infections in the same manner. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spent 16 days determining the source of the infections, which occurred in patients who had transplant surgeries at UPMC Presbyterian and UPMC Montefiore between the summer of 2014 and early 2015. Each patient was infected by a species of zygomycota. READ MORE

ReutersPuerto Rico is trying to build its medical tourism industry, from a current level of about $80 million a year to $300 million by 2017, as part of efforts to heal its chronically sick economy. A component of that is to encourage more patients to travel for organ transplants.
Patients who visit for transplants, and for more common medical procedures such as orthopedics, dentistry and weight-loss surgery, spend thousands on hotels, transportation and food. READ MORE

By Keith Carlson There's a saying that if you don't have a seat at the table, you're likely to end up on the menu. For nurses and the nursing profession, this could not be more true. Nurses need a seat at the table, and if it's not being freely offered, we need to elbow our way in, grab a chair and sit right down.READ MORE

Gren Bay Press Gazette It’s quick, portable and designed to help change — and save — the lives of thousands of people on organ transplant waiting lists.
Wisconsin donor advocates are using a new smartphone and tablet technology designed to quickly register potential organ, tissue and eye donors using the barcode information on driver licenses.READ MORE

University of Michigan Health System Three individuals needed life-saving kidney transplants. While they each had willing donors, they were not good matches. Kidney transplant teams from Beaumont Health, Henry Ford Health System and University of Michigan Health System worked together with the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network to find a kidney for each of their patients through a “paired donation” program.READ MORE

The HospitalistRecurring complications of cirrhosis can include ascites, acute variceal and portal hypertensive bleeds, hepatic encephalopathy, bacterial peritonitis, acute renal failure, sepsis, and a host of other infections. In many cases, options for treatment are limited as the patient develops decompensated cirrhosis.
Poor prognosis makes it important to urge these patients to get on a liver transplantation list, sooner rather than later, Dr. Hameed told hospitalists attending his small-group session. “Liver transplantation has changed this field,” he said. “Call us to see if your patient might be a candidate.”READ MORE

East County Magazine If you receive a new heart, lung, kidney or other donated organ, you may have an undocumented immigrant to thank.
Donate Life California, which runs California’s organ and tissue registry, reports that the number of organ donors has increased by nearly a third — 30 percent — since a new law took effect in January allowing undocumented immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses.READ MORE

HealioAlthough patients with a history of solid organ transplant who underwent total knee arthroplasty experienced increased — with relatively modest clinically significant — length of stays, costs and complications, investigators of this study noted the safety and efficacy of arthroplasty for these patients. Researchers identified 6,104 patients with a history of solid organ transplant who underwent primary total knee arthroplasty (TKA) and compared them with 5,864,317 non-transplant total knee arthroplasty patients.READ MORE

Alternet Patients in California, Oregon, and Washington, and other medical marijuana states have infamously and routinely been denied life-saving organ transplants solely because they use the plant. The given basis for denial of a spot on the national organ transplant list is that medical marijuana patients are substance abusers. Now, new research published in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology suggests that not only is medical marijuana safe and effective, it could actually reduce the risk of rejection of transplanted organs.READ MORE

EurekAlert!Kidney transplants saves lives and dramatically improve quality of life, but transplant recipients often must take dozens of pills a day to keep their new kidney functioning and prevent complications. Now, three new studies led by researchers at The Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa show that three of these drugs are not nearly as effective as previously thought and may have serious side-effects. The results are expected to change medical practice around the world.READ MORE